On Fri, 21 Jan 2000, Werner Koch wrote:
> On Fri, 21 Jan 2000, Chuck Robey wrote:
>> > How does either of your two options deal with a process started on a
> > regular basis by cron? No daemon to store the passphrase in ram with, and
> > impossible to make interactive input.
>> Use unprotected keys. Encrypting something and storing the key on
> the same medium remembers if of DVDs :0)
Uhh. I'm not the crypto-whiz you are. I understand (I think) the DVD
story. Can you tell me why needing crypto signatures on output of a cron
job equates to the DVD story? No sarcasm here, I really don't know.
>>
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